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When Do Redundant Requests Reduce Latency ?
Nihar B. Shah, Kangwook Lee, Kannan Ramchandran
Several systems possess the flexibility to serve requests in more than one way. For instance, a distributed storage system storing multiple replicas of the data can serve a request…
A Solution to the Network Challenges of Data Recovery in Erasure-coded Distributed Storage Systems: A Study on the Facebook Warehouse Cluster
K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah, Dikang Gu +3
Erasure codes, such as Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, are being increasingly employed in data centers to combat the cost of reliably storing large amounts of data. Although these codes p…
A Piggybacking Design Framework for Read-and Download-efficient Distributed Storage Codes
K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah, Kannan Ramchandran
We present a new 'piggybacking' framework for designing distributed storage codes that are efficient in data-read and download required during node-repair. We illustrate the power…